Conversations and Disputations Seminar

We run a seminar slot at the Institute for Historical Research that is open to our team members to organize short seminar series. This year, we are hosting two exciting series in alternating weeks. See our events listings for more details.

Decolonizing Europe

RSHC Team Member Rob Waters is collaborating with historian Camilla Schofield to run a special seminar series with the RSHC on ‘Decolonizing Europe’.

This seminar series brings together historians of modern Europe (including Britain) working on histories of empire, race and ethnicity. We will ask how considering these histories can help us to make sense of the trajectories of European politics and culture in the twentieth century—and historicise the current European crises. Seminars will consider, for instance, the historical treatment of refugees and the negotiated boundaries of Europe; the place of imperial legacies and decolonisation in the making of the European project; the economics of Europe and the Global South; racial justice and historical reparations; Europe’s so-called ‘crisis of multiculturalism’; and the conceptual contributions of Black European studies. We will consider how the decline of European empires, the rise of a united Europe, and the reconfiguration of the global labour market has determined political and social relationships at local, national, European and global levels. Most broadly, we will ask how postcolonial Europe has been conceptualised and fought over in the past, and where that project takes us today. Each session involves two or more scholars in discussion.

Pathologies of Solitude

We will be collaborating with Barbara Taylor’s Wellcome-funded project, Pathologies of Solitude, through a series of seminars that explore the subject. Solitude is both timeless and historical, a human universal that is understood and experienced differently over time. These seminar meetings examine the changing contours of solitude from antiquity to the present.

Watch our event listings for the seminar programme.

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Upcoming Events

Mountains before mountaineering, environment before environmentalism: valuing landscape in early modern EuropeNovember 21, 2018 at 4:00 pm – 5:30 pmHistory and Environment seminar series in association with the Sociology seminar, University of Glasgow Dawn Hollis, (St Andrews University) 4.00pm, Wednesday, 21 November 2018 Room 513, Boyd Orr Building, University Avenue, Glasgow G12 8QQ Chair: Neil Davidson, University of Glasgow All welcome, no need to book. For more information contact George Yerby george.yerby@googlemail.com or Neil…

‘How to Give up Plastic: Changing the World One Plastic Bottle at a Time’December 6, 2018 at 5:30 pm – 7:00 pmRoom QA063 (Council Room), Queen Anne Court, University of Greenwich, Old Royal Naval College, Park Row, London SE10 9LS Booking: All are welcome but we request people to register here on Eventbrite in case the room becomes fully booked: https://how-to-give-up-plastic-greenwich-rshctalk.eventbrite.co.uk

David Vincent (OU). ‘Solitude and Loneliness. The Making of a Modern Panic’. January 22, 2019 at 6:00 pm – 8:00 pmGordon Room G34, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1Pathologies of Solitude’ Seminar Series sponsored by the ‘Pathologies of Solitude’ Project, Queen Mary UL and the Raphael Samuel History Centre. Part of the ‘Conversations & Disputations’ Seminar Series, Institute of Historical Research